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DAICTIMORPHA, new genus. 



Agrees with Foerster's description of Daides Foerster, but, unlike 

 Daicfes (Foerster) Viereck, this genus belongs to the Hemitelini. 

 Propodeum with the longitudinal carina wanting or represented at 

 most by stride, basal and apical transverse carinse salient and com- 

 plete as in some I\Ie.sostenini. 



Type. — Daictiinorpha peruviana, new species. 



DAICTIMORPHA PERUVIANA, new species. 



Female. — Length, 4 mm.; mostly black and shining; face finely 

 sculptured, in certain lights showing appressed silvery pubescence; 

 clypeus mostly smooth and polished; mandibles yellow, with the 

 apical half mostly dark; palpi yellowish; scape stramineous, facetted 

 internally, hardly longer than thick, pedicel and first and second 

 joints of the flagel yellowish; flagel 22-jointed, the joints not before 

 mentioned brownish, nineteenth to twenty-first joints thicker than 

 long, the remaining joints longer than thick; thorax black, shining 

 and mostly finely sculptured; notauli poorly developed, not extend- 

 ing to the middle of the mesonotum; sternauli extending apparently 

 three-fourths the way back on the mesopleurse; tubercles, tegulse, and 

 wing base whitish; wings with a brownish tinge, veins and stigma 

 brownish to blackishj trochanters whitish; fore and middle coxse 

 stramineous and whitish, rest of fore and mid legs stramineous; 

 hind coxae blackish, hind femora brownish, stramineous at apex; 

 hind tibise and tarsi pale stramineous, with a subbasal and subapical 

 brownish stain or rudimentary annulus; propodeum more or less 

 finely sculptured and shining, with poorly developed plicae and striie; 

 abdomen, finely sculptured, blackish and shining; first segment 

 wider at base than tliick, the sides of the petiole vertical and carinate 

 above and below; spiracles of first segment nearer the apex than to 

 each other; second, third, and fourth, dorsal segments with the apical 

 edge translucent brownish ; exserted portion of ovipositor approxi- 

 mately as long as the first segment. 



Type-locality. — Department of Piura, Peru. 



Type.—^at. No. 14739, U.S.N.M. 



Labeled, ''reared from cotton squares July 11, C. H. T. Townsend, 

 No. 795° 3h." 



CAMPOPLEX (DIADEGMA) JAPONICUS, new species. 



Answers the description for Hyposoter chrysorrhoeae Viereck, except- 

 ing as follows: 



Male. — Length 5.5 mm. ; malar line about as long as the mandibles 

 are wide at base, anterior margin of clypeus rather arcuate outwardly, 

 scape and pedicel blackish, edged with brown or castaneous, greatest 

 diameter of lateral ocellus a little longer than the ocellocular line, 



